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Everyone knows everyone else’s business in this engrossing debut novel
The Belfast writer explores the gap between how people behave and how they would like to behave
This novel is vintage Nicholls and shows that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step
Bullwinkel has created eight memorably unique teenage girls whose aim is literally to be singular, which is to say, number one
Debut novel absorbs from the opening chapter, following the story of Dublin girl Jean
Mary Costello’s new collection shows her innate understanding of loss as the foundation of the short story
To say too much about the plot would risk the immense reading pleasure to be found within the carefully constructed story
The Lodgers marks Pester out as a writer to watch and should feature on many awards shortlists this year
Madcap enthusiasm of author’s writing will win over many readers
At the heart of the novel is the question of satisfaction: what will it take, or how much will it take, for the protagonist to be happy?
An engaging, symphonic novel of overlapping lives and loyalties
Portrait of Bowen emerges in the anecdotes, letters and quotations from her fiction and non-fiction
Judi Dench’s instincts as an actor, her knowledge and experience give the book its depth
A historical novel about John Mitchel fails to give the flawed protagonist psychological depth
Intelligent and complex novel, Absolution, gives a fresh perspective on the Vietnam War through a wonderfully immersive story